To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture, and part... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 82by Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
| Harry Levin - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 225 pages
...them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture and part in agony;...nothing human ever was delivered, is the business of a modern dramatist. This is a preview, in Johnson's periodic cadences, of the Hollywood master-plan:... | |
| Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 298 pages
...them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture and part in agony;...nothing human ever was delivered, is the business of a modern dramatist. For this, probability is violated, life is misrepresented, and language is depraved.... | |
| Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...them with oppositions of interest,5 and harrass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture and part in agony;...sorrow; to distress them as nothing human ever was 1 'Domestic': 1. 'Belonging to the house; not relating to things publick'. 2. 'Private; done at home;... | |
| Robert Alter - Education - 1996 - 264 pages
...have mentioned triadic series in the passage, to which one must add the flourishing of paired terms ("to make them meet in rapture and part in agony;...mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow," and so forth). Architectonic prose of various sorts often tends to a fondness for groupings of two... | |
| David Mikics - Reference - 2008 - 364 pages
...also ATTIC. positions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture and part in agony;...sorrow; to distress them as nothing human ever was delivered ..." More soberly, the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) denned plot as "the intelligible... | |
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